Awl --
Yesterday, my '98 3016L alarmed out a cupla times, from what I think are occasional overloads on 3-axis rapids at 100%.
Used to be so bad I couldn't use 100% rapid at all on 3-axis moves, but Fadal had me change a parameter setting, which largely cleared the problem. The remaining vestiges of the problem seem to be from middling rpc power. Actually, my rpc is way better than most, because I went through great pains to balance the legs with a switchable capacitor bank, but rpc is still rpc....
But this is just background to The Quirk.
So what I did was remove the Z move from my 3-axis initial move, so the machine would start out with only a 2-axis rapid. And then all hell broke loose, the operative word being "broke".
The reason?
The fadal 88cs control does not like to see an H word without a Z word -- at least not in the context of x,y moves. When I moved the Z move to the next line (to get rid of the 3-axis rapid move), the machine went haywire -- even tho I also re-stated the H word with the Z word. All because the H word was also left on the previous line, without a Z move!
The machine would then not recognize Z0 or even the m0's that I included as part of my sleuthing. Thank god it still recognized the HOLD button!
But, every time I checked Z0 via MDI, it *would* recognize Z0. Yet, in the midst of all this, recognizing machine Z0 (for the carousel) was not a problem.
Wow.... caused all kinds of trouble, broke a $40+ em (the last one, of course), etc.
Inyone else experience program quirks like this, or other quirks?